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One of only 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams. Fine (clean and unread) in near fine original tissue dust wrapper (one tiny hole, some toning). A SUPERB, COLLECTIBLE copy!
Self-mastery, (His Practical series) Paramananda by Paramananda
by Paramananda
Self-mastery, (His Practical series) Paramananda
by Paramananda
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Good. Good Signed and Inscribed by Swami Parananda, two years before his death as follows on the first front free-page:" With my hearty wishes + prayers, Swami Paramananda, April 8th, 1938" No dust wrapper as issued Contents:Mastery Of Self; Man His Own Friend And Foe; Control Of Body And Mind; Conquest Of Our Lower Nature; How To Conserve Our Energies; Self-Help And Self-Surrender The Vedanta Centre, Boston, MA 84 pages 1923 Hardcover, Copyright date 1923 are present, Revised and Enlarged Fourth Edition, Binding is tight but covers have been reglued with noticable pastedown hinge pulls and and glue traces, faint old smudge stain on the lower title-page, rubbed shelf worn covers and corners with small bits of board exposure and lightly bumped edges, worn spinal ends and edges, normal interior page age toning, unmarked text, no names, no stamps, no labels Signed and Inscribed by Swami Paramananda, two years before his death as follows on the first front free-page:" With my hearty wishes + prayers, Swami Paramananda, April 8th, 1938" No dust wrapper as issued Contents:Mastery Of Self; Man His Own Friend And Foe; Control Of Body And Mind; Conquest Of Our Lower Nature; How To Conserve Our Energies; Self-Help And Self-Surrender The Vedanta Centre, Boston, MA 84 pages
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Grand (Signed/Limited)
by Williams, Tennessee
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- Fine
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- first
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- Used - Fine
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- Near Fine
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Haddonfield, New Jersey, United States
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NZ$617.26
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"IT'S SID BERNSTEIN CALLING..." The Promoter Who Brought the Beatles to America **SIGNED by BERNSTEIN**
by Bernstein, Sid, Aaron, Arthur
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- first
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- Used - Fine
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- Fine
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- 1st Edition
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Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
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NZ$514.11
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Jonathan David Publishers, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Author(s). 1st Printing Includes 4 photos from Book Signing!! Signed on half title page, signature; Thank you and LUV. Both book and dust jacket in Mint Condition! Dust jacket is protected in an acid-free archival quality acetate cover. More images upon request. Book came from the estate of a private collector!
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THE YOSEMITE GUIDE-BOOK: A Description of the Yosemite Valley and the Adjacent Region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the Big Trees of California,
by Whitney, J. D.
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- Used - Good
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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NZ$514.38
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Octavo (9 1/4 x 7 inches) Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.: Published by Authority of the Legislature, 1870. First Trade Edition, Second Printing. 155 pages, illustrated with engraved cuts of scenery throughout the text, and eight full page engraved plates with protective tissue guards; maps in pockets missing.Original green cloth trade binding, decorated with a map of the Sierra and surrounding country stamped in gilt on the front cover; and similarly, a logo of the Geological Survey team with their equipment stamped in gilt on the back cover; title in gilt on spine.
Good condition, showing the results of being carried in a pocket or ruck sack (the covers and corners of the fragile binding show some wear; lower right corner of front cover appears to have been bent). Inscription of previous owner dated "July 4, 1889, (In camp under the Royal Arches, Yosemite)" on front fly leaf, light pencil notation on a few pages not affecting text or illustrations, contents clean and intact; ticket of the… Read More
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The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches
by Brown, Fredric
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- Used - Fine minus
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Tucson, Arizona, United States
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NZ$385.78
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A paperback original. Book has been bound into hard cover boards with quarter leather by Dr. Arthur W. Weyesse in 1952. Boards are Very Good with small stain to front and edge and corner wear. Dancing Sandwiches and Brown stamped to spine. Book is Fine minus with age toning to pages and appears unread. Unusual item.
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Catalogue des Livres Illustres par Daragnes (Signed by Daragnes) 1924 Woodcuts
by Pierre Mac Orlan (Preface)
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- Used - Very Good
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Frederick, Maryland, United States
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NZ$514.36
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Privately Printed, 1924. Softcover. Very Good. Original exhibition catalog issued on the occasion of an exhibition of books containing illustrations by celebrated painter, engraver, publisher and illustrator Jean-Gabriel Daragnes - specifically, woodcuts. Illustrated with an original portrait etching of Daragnes by Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, 11 black-and-white Daragnes plates, three depicting lesbian scenes, and an original Daragnes hand-colored engraving laid in showing a husband walking in on his wife in bed with her lover - a scene from Fielding's Tom Jones. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper thus: "Pour Madame Legat | Ce registre d'etat und des infants | qu'un pere demature confie a | l'assistance publingier | le pere indigne | Daragnes." Translation: "For Mrs. Legat: This register of state and children that a father has entrusted with the assistant publisher. The unworthy father, Daragnes." Also signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by an…
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Little Mother Goose
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Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
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2 & 3 Portsmouth St. Kingsway, W.C.: George G. Harrap & Co. Book. Illus. by Pictured By Willy Pogany. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mother riding her goose on cover pastedown. First two pages, Mother Goose in colour. Pp. 3 & 4, four panels in B/W. Pp. 5 & 6, four panels of Jack and his goose in colour. Pp. 7 & 8, two panels of Dapple-grey pony and Hey, diddle, diddle in B/W. Pp. 9 & 10, three panels in colour of the Jew and Jack, Mother Goose turning Jack and his lady to Harlequin and Concubine, and Mother Goose riding up to the moon. Pp. 11 & 12, four B/W panels of Pussy Cat, Robinson Crusoe, and Georgie Porgie. Pp. 13 & 14, four colour panels of Cross-Patch, Peter White, Handy Pandy, and Humpty Dumpty. Pp. 15 & 16, two B/W panels of One, Two, Buckle my shoe to Nineteen, Twenty, My stomach's empty. Pp. 17 & 18, four colour panels of Little Tom Tucker, Tom the Piper's Son, Little Jack Horner, and…
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Ghosts. The New York Trilogy Volume 2.
by AUSTER, Paul
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- as new
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- first
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- As New
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- Fine
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- First edition / First printing.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780940650701
- ISBN 10
- 0940650703
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.
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CURL UP SMALL
by Warburg, Sandol Stoddard
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- Near Fine
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- First edition, First Printing
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Bacova, Virginia, United States
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. Book. Illus. by Trina Schart Hyman. Fine. Hardcover. First edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine in a Near Fine, price clipped dustjacket. Dj shows light edge wear with a tiny chip missing from lower front corner. Very early illustrated book by an award winning illustrator..
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Eve's Daughters or Common Sense for Maid, Wife and Mother
by Marion Harland Pen Name Mary Virginia Terhune
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- Used - VERY Good ++Near Mint, tight,.clean, spine is intact, no pulling. Text clean, very little yellowing, if any, corners not pumped.
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- New York J. R. Anderson & H. S. Allen. Boston, Lee & Shepard (18
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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NZ$600.11
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New York J. R. Anderson & H. S. Allen. Boston, Lee & Shepard, 1882. New York J. R. Anderson & H. S. Allen. Boston, Lee & Shepard (1882). Olive Green boards , Black lettering with embossed Gold design to front cover and spine, clean, bright and vibrant. No. VERY Good ++Near Mint, tight,.clean, spine is intact, no pulling. Text clean, very little yellowing, if any, corners not pumped. minute shelf wear at top and bottom of spine./DJ. Mary Virginia Terhune (née Hawes, December 21, 1830 - June 3, 1922), also known by her penname Marion Harland, was an American author. She began her career writing articles at the age of 14, using various pennames until 1853, when she settled on Marion Harland. Her first novel was published in 1854 and would go on to sell over 100,000 copies. For fifteen years she was a prolific writer of best-selling women's fiction novels, as well as writing numerous serial works, short stories, and essays for magazines. After marrying Presbyterian minister Edward Payson Terhune in…
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The Passing Show; A Garden Diary by an Amateur Gardener Signed 1st Edition 1st Impression
by Captain W.E Johns
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- very good
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- first
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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NZ$533.98
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1st Edition / 1st Impression, September 1937. Very good in very good dust jacket which is not price-clipped (Published price 5'-net). Handsigned by WE Johns to the front endpaper, with neat Christmas 1937 presentation in another hand beneath. Particularly clean and tight, in Very Good dustwrapper which has a tear to the lower rear panel and small abrasion to the upper spine. The dust-jacket is protected by a transparent, non-adhesive, archival quality acid-free protector, which can be easily removed if required.A collection of Johns's articles for the My Garden periodical, with a number of unpublished pieces and original illustrations by Howard Leigh. Johns is best remembered as the author of the Biggles books. This is his only book on gardening.
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